1906: A Wapato invitation
An addition to the post-frontier “Chinook invitations” file:
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Buckskin invitation
The Improved Order of Red Men strike again.
Potlatch Club ball invitation
The Daily Morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) Tuesday, March 27, 1888, column 3. I invite your interpretations of this text! Most of it’s quite clear. Some is new to me. — Dave Potlatch Club Ball.… Continue reading
Red Men Greet Their Big Chiefs
The Red Men were a Settler fraternal organization that we’ve seen was quite attached to the “Jargon”…
1899: Washougal, an Indian Romance
The folklore behind an Indigenous place-name is Whitemansplained; some excellent Chinuk Wawa emerges from the layers of fiction and lavish illustrations.
1892: Chinook Whist
Evidently not an April Fools joke!
The Potlatch at Sooke
Chinook Jargon is candidly used for local colour in this touristy 1907 eyewitness piece…
Ugh! You’re invited to the Redmen dance!
Add this to your collection of jovial Chinuk Wawa party invitations, sub-file Redmen.
Correspond in Chinook: how to say ‘sandwiches and clam chowder’
Pioneer Thomas Prosch of Seattle adds to a string of Chinuk Wawa-rich appearances in this space…
The Mazamas
Today I’m just reproducing the closing paragraph of a published invitation (otherwise in English) from the Pacific Northwest’s legendary mountaineering club, The Mazamas. (They still exist.)